FIBA Official Basketball rules 2022

43.3.3

If a free throw is not successful and the violation is committed by: • A free-throw shooter or his/her team-mate on the last free throw, the ball shall be awarded to the opponents for a throw-in from the free-throw line extended unless that team is entitled to further possession. • An opponent of the free-throw shooter, a substitute free throw shall be awarded to the free-throw shooter. • Both teams , on the last free throw, a jump ball situation occurs.

Article 44 Correctable errors 44.1 Definition

Referees may correct an error if a rule is inadvertently disregarded in the following situations only: • Awarding an unmerited free throw(s). • Failing to award a merited free throw(s). • Erroneous awarding or cancelling of a point(s). • Permitting the wrong player to attempt a free throw(s). To be correctable the above-mentioned errors must be recognised by the referees, commissioner, if present, or table officials before the ball becomes live following the first dead ball after the game clock has started following the error. These errors are no longer correctable after the ball becomes dead when the game clock sounds for the end of the game. A referee may stop the game immediately upon recognition of a correctable error, unless neither team is placed at a disadvantage. Any fouls committed, points scored, time used and additional activity which may have occurred after the error has occurred and before its recognition, shall remain valid. After the correction of the error the game shall be resumed from the place it was stopped to correct the error, unless otherwise stated in these rules. The ball shall be awarded to the team entitled to the ball at the time the game was stopped for the correction of the error. General procedure Once an error that is still correctable has been recognised, and: • The player involved in the correction of the error is on the team bench after being legally substituted, he/she must re-enter the court to participate in the correction of the error, at which point he/she becomes a player. Upon completion of the correction, he/she may remain in the game unless a legal substitution has been requested again, in which case the player may leave the court. • The player was substituted due to his/her injury or assistance, having committed 5 fouls or having been disqualified, his/her substitute must participate in the correction of the error. An error in scorekeeping, timekeeping or shot clock operations involving the score, number of fouls, number of time-outs, game clock and shot clock time consumed or omitted, may be corrected by the referees at any time before the crew chief has signed the scoresheet.

44.2

44.2.1

44.2.2

44.2.3

44.2.4

44.2.5

44.2.6

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OFFICIAL BASKETBALL RULES 2022

September 2022